French Accent

French Accent

Awning stripes in soft shades of cream and gray are painted onto the walls of a guest room at designer Catherine Memmi’s getaway in Normandy, France, a house whose color scheme references the moody landscape.

French Accent

Awning stripes in soft shades of cream and gray are painted onto the walls of a guest room at designer Catherine Memmi’s getaway in Normandy, France, a house whose color scheme references the moody landscape.

Photographer: Thibault Jeanson

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Be Her Guest

Designer Sheila Bridges painted the office-cum-guest room of her Harlem apartment with a dashing arrangement of orange, black, white, and gray stripes. The color scheme is straight out of the early 19th century, while the effect is utterly mod.

Photographer: William Waldron

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Drama Times Two

Interior designer Alessandra Branca inventively set off the vertical stripes of a client’s laundry room by papering the adjacent bath with the same pattern applied horizontally. The wall covering is Large Stripe by Clarence House.

Photographer: Thibault Jeanson

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A Fresh Angle

In a tower bedroom of his French country house, designer Todd Hase amplified the space's angles by installing Brunschwig & Fils’s Simply Stripes wallpaper. Vintage fabrics in the same palette were made into curtains.

Photographer: Simon Upton

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Bold and Pretty

Lilac-and-white hand-painted stripes provide a crisp background for an eclectic Paris salon decorated by Brussels-based designer Bruno de Caumont. They also help visually organize the array of art and objects.

Photographer: Thibault Jeanson

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Small Space, Grand Effect

The barrel-vaulted master bath of Jamie Creel and Marco Scarani’s apartment in Paris is lined with black-and-white stripes. Extended onto a section of the ceiling, the pattern adds extra drama to the niche framing the nickel-and-brass tub.

Photographer: Roger Davies

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Linear Thinking

The Manhattan apartment of Paula Caravelli and her family features a dashing butler's pantry whose walls sport earth-tone stripes in an eye-catching horizontal formation.

Photographer: Simon Upton

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All Lined Up

In the master bedroom of Gaser Tabakoglu’s Germantown, New York, home, an Anglo-Indian bed rises amid walls lined with red-and-white stripes. The vertical pattern has the effect of making the canopy bed look as if it’s seamlessly connected to the walls.

Photographer: John M. Hall

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A Lighter Touch

Art consultant Quito Fierro gave the guest bedroom of his Paris apartment the look of an elegant cage by sheathing the walls in a striped fabric by Pierre Frey. The bed’s airy metal canopy seems to disappear into the pattern.